Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist - Community Recovery Team South

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Greater London is seeking a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist to join their Community Recovery Team. This role involves leading the delivery of high-quality integrated care for patients with serious mental health issues. The candidate will have clinical responsibilities and the opportunity to contribute to quality improvement programs. Essential qualifications include GMC registration and relevant experience in clinical psychiatry. The position offers a unique chance to work closely within multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Must be on the GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT.
• Experience in service development and introducing new services.
• Training in some psychological therapies is essential.

Responsibilities

• Clinical responsibility for service users in CRT sub-team.
• Lead delivery of high-quality care and develop integrated services.
• Ensure effective policies and procedures are followed.

Skills

Clinical work in General Adult Psychiatry

Application of the Mental Health Act

Ability to work in multidisciplinary team

Teaching junior staff

Education

Fully registered with the General Medical Council

Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Job description

Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist - Community Recovery Team South

We are seeking a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist to join the Community Recovery Team South in Newham. This is a rare opportunity to work in an integrated inpatient and community service. The Community Recovery Team serves adults with serious mental illness residing in the South of the borough. It is a well-established service which seamless and integrated mental health care between inpatients and the community.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be enrolled on the Trusts highly regarded Improvement Science in Action training and will be encouraged to contribute to our unique Quality Improvement programme.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will have overall clinical responsibility for service users on their caseload in their CRT sub-team and sector inpatients. They will lead on the delivery of high quality care in all settings; ensure policies and procedures are followed; develop close working links with GP colleagues in order to provide integrated holistic care; and develop close working links with the acute locality treatment wards ensuring the right care is provided in the right setting.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

Job responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for further information.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• Fully registered with the General Medical Council
• On the GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT
• Higher training in approved training posts for minimum of 3 years and / or previous consultant training.
• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
• Approval under Section 12(2) of Mental Health Act 1983 and Approved Clinician status

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience of clinical work in General Adult Psychiatry at ST4-6 or Consultant level within the last 3 years
• Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
• Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
• Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry
• Experience of working on an inpatient ward
• Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
• Knowledge & experience of recovery-informed service delivery and working with patients as experts by experience

ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS/ ABILITIES

• Ability to work as a part of multidisciplinary, multi-model team
• Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
• Consultation/liaison skills to services, teams and individuals
• Commitment to working in multidisciplinary setting
• Commitment to working with service users on service development
• Project management ability
• Formal leadership and management training
• Experience of team /service leadership
• Experience of organisational development work
• Experience of providing reflective practice to the teams
• Experience of consultations to the teams and individuals

CLINICAL SKILLS

• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide leadership for the team
• Self-motivating and innovative
• Expertise in risk assessment and evidence-based intervention after self-harm
• Confident in therapeutic risk taking
• Commitment to clinical governance
• Training in a psychological therapy

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

• Experience in teaching junior staff
• Good teaching and communication skills
• Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
• Experience of teaching non-medical mental health professionals

RESEARCH AND AUDIT

• Experience of research work, especially in general hospital patients and / or patients with medically unexplained symptoms
• Experience of grant-funded project work
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to get on with colleagues
• Media training

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.